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Saint of the Day – 2 June – Saint Eugene I (Died 657) the 75th Bishop of Rome

Saint of the Day – 2 June – Saint Eugene I (Died 657) the 75th Bishop of Rome elected on 10 August 654 and died at Rome on 2 June 657 of natural causes, aged just 42. He was chosen to become Pope after the exile of Martin I by Emperor Constans II over the dispute regarding the Monothelitism Heresy. Eugene was a Roman from the Aventine region along the Tiber, He was the son of Rufinianus and had…